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The 2007 Year-End Crazy Ambition(Top 50 Singles, Numero Uno)
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This batch of songs brings a tear to me eye. Yes, me eye. I had to keep that typo for hilarity purposes.
The tear is actually butter, so it's a good tear.
"Killing" is just insane, as are "The Great Destroyer" and "Chromo-Matic". You's got AIDS, Man.
DEP **** the world!
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When It Rains, Effect and Cause, Afterlife, Baby, The Great Destroyer, River in the Road, Killing and Golden ^________^
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60% of those said songs are hotness. Gud jawb!
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That is a fantastic list of songs. Not a single complaint with any of them.
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Yes Yes YES. Way to recognize "Champion" and "Breakin Up".
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Thank god, I'm not the only one who loves When It Rains.
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great stuff, Ryan. "Effect & Cause" especially is very badass.
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15/20
I never said I hated When It Rains. I said I liked it considerably less than every other song on the album, but still like it somewhat and gave you credit for it. And I completely agree about Hayley being the only reason to like the band. Everyone else in the band is simply average or worse, but she is amazing. For the record, that song has grown on me recently but I still have it last on my favorites list from the album.
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The 2007 Year-End Crazy Ambition(Top 40 Non-Singles, 20-11)
It's Christmas time in Hollis, Queens...DO YOU CARE?!
Even if you don't, here's 20-11.
The Year-End Crazy Ambition Presents:
The Top 40 Non-Singles of 2007!
[20] Nine Inch Nails - Gunshots By Computer(Hyperpower! Remix By Saul Williams)
-- I find this song to be amazing because of the song that it spawned from. Saul Williams decides to take on A FREAKING INSTRUMENTAL, adds lyrics to it, and, in the process, adds an entire new dimension to the song that not many people could have possibly seen. What's most amazing about this is that the song itself now feels so much more *real* than it did as an instrumental. Can I still listen to the original? Absolutely. But I think that Saul Williams has made the definitive version of the song.
[19] The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution
-- The song that introduced me to the world of Tom Morello's Nightwatchman, "One Man Revolution" is the kind of song that I, usually, get tired of rather quickly and move on to other songs and musicians. However, in this case, I found myself coming back to it, again and again. After a little while, I finally decided to just listen to the album to see if the album matches its greatness. While most of the album doesn't compare(though it's still a solid album, and some of the songs may even surpass it), this song still resonates with me in a way few others did this year. Of course, this song also has another statement lyric for yours truly this year, "And if you've come this far, mister, maybe we're one and the same!" Just another statement lyric in a series of them on the album of the same name.
[18] Nine Inch Nails - God Given
-- GOD GIVEN~! That's all I really need to say as to why this song's on this list, but I guess I do have to give you guys more than that. For some reason, this song gets a reaction out of me that very few can get out of me, and that's...well, dancing. Yes, that's right, I ****ing dance to this song. It's really hard not to, though, with its incredible beat and sing-a-long lyrics, including one of my absolute favorite song parts of the year at 1:37. Glorious!
[17] Korn - Innocent Bystander
-- On the first listen of this album, two songs stood out to me above all others: "Ever Be"(one that you will still see later on)...and this beast of a track, a track that does not let up throughout the entire song. "Innocent Bystander" definitely has one of my favorite riffs of the year, but the parts that I love more than any other. and the parts that put this song as high as it is, are, in order:
1) "In your head, blood run red"
2) "I'M JUST AN INN-O-CENT BY-STAN-DUH!"
3) The brief, but still incredibly awesome solo
[16] Queens of the Stone Age - I'm Designer
-- Would it be wrong to say that this is the most...unique Queens of the Stone Age song? From a band that is unique themselves, to say a song is their most unique is pretty impressive, but this song sounds like absolutely nothing I've ever heard before. It's really hard to explain just what the sound is, but try to imagine Josh Homme in a chamber, singing to a poppier Queens sound, singing some of the more funny lyrics Queens has ever written. This has become quite the love/hate song to fans and non-fans alike, and understandably so, but I'm clearly in the former area. This song is just too insane not to love.
[15] Thrice - Firebreather
-- The perfect opening song to one of the most intense albums(well, half of an album) of the year, "Firebreather" is a song I've been waiting for since the first time I listened to Vheissu. It takes the hardest parts of "Musicbox" and meshes them with the perfect harmony of "Red Sky" to make a musical baby of epic proportions. I may regret putting this song this LOW, in all honesty, but time will tell on that one. Regardless, this is now one of my favorite Thrice tracks.
[14] Paramore - We Are Broken
-- Up until this song, I liked RIOT!. I didn't love it, but I liked it. That all changed with this song. This is one of the few songs on the album that would probably work if sung by somebody else, though Hayley Williams makes it HER song and nobody elses. You want to know what's really weird about my love for this song? It's totally a worship song. Like, the God kind of worship. But it's just a beautifully written and WONDERFULLY sung song, so I can overlook that pretty easily. I cannot freaking stress enough just how much I love Hayley. It's almost an out-of-body experience when I listen to her sing.
[13] Nine Inch Nails - My Violent Heart(Pirate Robot Midget Remix)
-- I do feel kind of dirty for not putting this higher, because it is easily one of my favorite songs of the year, but it is a remix, and I would also feel dirty if I put it in the top ten, above the tracks above it. Trent Reznor(and his remixers) has given me the ability to juke and jive again and not feel ashamed by it. And this remix was done by a FAN. A FAN!! That is absolutely mind-boggling. It's a complete 180 of the original, and I doubt that a remix of this song could have been done better.
[12] The Dillinger Escape Plan - Milk Lizard
-- I ****ing *love* this song. The horns beneath the surface, the frantic pace, the hard rock power, everything about this song is so awesome. What's even more amazing is how well everything meshes together. It's almost as if DEP says to themselves whenever they make a new album, "Okay, guys, let's just throw everything we can into one song and see how well it works together." The piano part, in particular, is just so ridiculously out of place, yet not out of place at all at the same time. I mean, just look at who's making the song. And the chorus is, suitably, epic, and the second version of the chorus never fails to send chills down my spine with its incredible machine gun-like drums. Just another day at the office for DEP.
[11] Serj Tankian - Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
-- This song is, by far, the most out there and most innovative tune on Serj's first solo album, Elect the Dead. It sounds absolutely nothing like System of a Down, other than the fact that the song is sung by Serj Tankian. And it's not enough for Serj to make a song with just the first music, but he has to go and change the tempo to something much more calming and relaxing for the chorus. I mean, just go right for my heart, why don't you, Serj? You awesome, magnificent bastard. I think that this song is the preview of things to come for those who are going to come back for the second album, like yours truly, and, if that's true, I can't wait to come back to Serj's world for a second time.
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You slay me once again with your awesomeness.
Korn, Nails, Paramore and DEP are my personal favorites from this set. We Are Innocent Gunshots by My Violent God Given Milk Lizard.
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Another great set of songs Ryan. You sir are on FIYAH!
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Those are some awesome songs
We Are Broken is awesome
Firebreather is awesome
It is simply too awesome to give a number to. There is no number to describe it.
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nin x3, Paramore, Serj Tankian, QOTSA, Korn
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The 2007 Year-End Crazy Ambition(Top 40 Non-Singles,10-6)
Never mind the bollocks, here's 10-6!
The Year-End Crazy Ambition Presents:
The Top 40 Non-Singles of 2007!
[10] The Nightwatchman - The Garden of Gethsemane
-- "This is a song about moments of doubt." Well said, Tom. This is the song that, of course, features another of my anthem lyrics of 2007, "I know who I'm for...and who I'm against", but that's not all that it's good for to me. It also sounds, fittingly, depressing and sad, and with lyrics like "I sit at the bottom and wait for the night", who are YOU to deny it? Musicially, it's very simple, but also, at the same time, beautiful. See, kids? Simple can, actually, be a good thing in music, especially when done right, as is the case here. "Take my hand, love, down we go."
[9] Korn - Kiss
-- This may be the most un-Korn-like song that they have EVER made, but that takes nothing away from my theory that it is one of the more beautiful songs that they have ever made. It has a very subdued feeling to it, which I'm not that accustomed to hearing in Korn songs, except for the chorus, which is very bombastic and booming with drums that almost overshadow Jonathan Davis' amazing vocals. The part that always gets to me, however, is the ending. While the wording of "Why you always push me away?" kind of gets on my nerves, it's the way that he sings it that gets to me every single time, especially the last one, where it sounds like he's about to lose it completely.
[8] Static-X - Chemical Logic
-- If you are a metal fan, and the opening riff does NOT melt your face off, you need to turn in your metal card and say goodbye to us all, because you are not a metal fan. I don't care if it is Static-X, the kings of "disco rock". It doesn't ****ing matter who came up with the damn riff, it is still one of the most blazing, intense, tough and brutal METAL riffs ever made. I don't even want to hear any arguments about it. It just is. The rest of the song, thankfully, holds up its end of the bargain after such an amazing opening. The chorus, in particular, is really fun to sing along to. And, of course, there's "CHEMICAL LA-LOGIC! CHEMICAL LA-LOGIC!", which is about as fun of a sing along moment as there is all year. In closing, if you do not think this is metal, you are a moron. The end.
[7] Linkin Park - No More Sorrow
-- Sadly, the rest of the album isn't quite like this track. Then again, if all of the tracks sounded like "No More Sorrow", then the song would lose the huge appeal that it has on yours truly and sound repetitive and redundant. This song stands out so much when compared to the songs around it. It is, by far, the most epic, incredible tune on an otherwise not up to par Linkin Park album. In a year with quite a few amazing choruses and instrumentals, this song could very well have the best of both. The opening instrumental is still incredible to listen to after all of these listens, and that and the chorus are as close as LP has ever come to being truly metal. Please, LP, give us more songs like this one next album. PLEASE. I love having my face rocked off.
[6] Serj Tankian - Saving Us
-- My favorite song on Elect the Dead is also...wait for it...the most epic as well. "When we sit and talk and tear each other's lives apart, you were the one to tell me, 'Go'". Fascinating ****, no? But the lyrics are definitely not why I love this song. The chorus is one of the main reasons why. Everything gets turned up to 11 for the chorus. That includes the vocals. This song features one of Serj's best vocals performances. Coming from a man with such an amazing voice, that is a huge accomplishment, but his vocals really are amazing here. However, this song goes from being just "great" to being incredible at around the 3:10 mark, when the song(and Serj) absolutely loses it and turns into a magnum opus, with blazing drums, a choir, and power all over. I would LOVE to see this song be a single. Not only do I think that it would be successful, it would be a refreshing change of pace, one that rock radio desperately needs.
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A+ -- especially the middle three.
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Dude, I ****ing love Saving Us. Awesome write-up by the way.
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This list just keeps getting better and better.
10/5
Yes that is ten out of five
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Great write-up for "No More Sorrow"
The rest are grade A as well.
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